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and boehner was able to persuade them, don't touch it. and so it was democrat own corrupt mess that didn't work. at 20 republicans, can i get something from a district just a little thing and i vote for? then it would've been a bipartisan mess in 2010 and never happened. i think boehner and mitch mcconnell understand as you go into 2014, 2016 and the rest of the republic's life, if the republican party is apart from obama's -- it succeeds. if you hug him and join and do bad things, that's unlikely to work. >> is there a loophole in the pledge? if we go off the cliff at the end of the or, if all the bush tax cuts expire, if everybody's taxes go up and then republicans vote to eliminate taxes on everyone, or to reinstate the bush tax cuts for everyone except for the various -- they're all voting for a tax cut, right? >> here's the challenge, and this has been what harry reid doesn't get to the pledges not to make. the pledges to the people of the state and the american people. so if your congressman percentage can go back and say 20 differe
and boehner was able to persuade them, don't touch it. and so it was democrat own corrupt mess that didn't work. at 20 republicans, can i get something from a district just a little thing and i vote for? then it would've been a bipartisan mess in 2010 and never happened. i think boehner and mitch mcconnell understand as you go into 2014, 2016 and the rest of the republic's life, if the republican party is apart from obama's -- it succeeds. if you hug him and join and do bad things, that's...
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speaker boehner has made it a goal. we have to do something. the president wants something, and so i think there's a positive atmosphere for getting something done this year. >> host: and, again, when you look at the legislation that will be coming, how do you make it comprehensive, or do you make it comprehensive? >> guest: boy, that's a great question. the more layers as we try to understand the totality of cybersecurity, we learn one layer and have to learn the next so it's very complex; so we have to, part of our goal at the task force is to take that complexity and make it simple. that's difficult to do in itself, and so i think what you'll come up with is the bill that's going to be simple, streamlined saying we're going to eliminate these barriers, anti-trust, facilitate the communications, and then simply say go after it. >> host: what kind of current cybersecurity legislation is on the books, and would a new bill build on that or change it? >> guest: well, that's the issue is there really isn't a cybersecurity bill out there. you know,
speaker boehner has made it a goal. we have to do something. the president wants something, and so i think there's a positive atmosphere for getting something done this year. >> host: and, again, when you look at the legislation that will be coming, how do you make it comprehensive, or do you make it comprehensive? >> guest: boy, that's a great question. the more layers as we try to understand the totality of cybersecurity, we learn one layer and have to learn the next so it's very...
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boehner was not. he took note of the wave and he could either be crushed by you or surface and so if he did, to the point he became speaker of the house for the minority leader of the freshmen are well aware that he is not of that movement and that tension has also been present throughout the legislative session. >> host: we are talking with robert draper, this is his newest book what we do in the u.s. house of representatives talking about 112 congress. the numbers are on the screen. mr. draper what is the number about alan west plays in the congress? >> guest: equal opportunity offender. west is without question the most famous of the 87 freshmen. he was a tea party sensation before he was every elected because in 2009 he gave his so-called bayonet speech in which he exhorted his audience to pick up their bayonets and charge the enemy to victory. but i say equal opportunity offender because even though he is very much a tea party freshman, i should mention he's from the fort lauderdale florida area.
boehner was not. he took note of the wave and he could either be crushed by you or surface and so if he did, to the point he became speaker of the house for the minority leader of the freshmen are well aware that he is not of that movement and that tension has also been present throughout the legislative session. >> host: we are talking with robert draper, this is his newest book what we do in the u.s. house of representatives talking about 112 congress. the numbers are on the screen. mr....
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not that i want to kill boehner. it's too bad that he can't just do what needs to be done, which is to make clear what the problems are and in them. >> i had a question that was very much related to the last comment. it has to do with both osama bin laden and these -- the use of the secret war. david ignatius wrote about how he is one of the presidents who has taken most quickly into understanding our intelligence system and all the secret stuff that is out there. we have all these secret armies. also what is interesting, he has been one of the presidents who has been most vociferous about shutting down and badly treating whistle-blowers and not tolerating any -- any kind of a tax or someone coming at him. and so i am wondering if you put all of this together, someone who cannot book criticism, having an alternative view out there. on top of this being willing to be a law unto himself, regardless of what that is. >> this is all is why i like to come to politics and prose. i think that in his unconscious, and this is,
not that i want to kill boehner. it's too bad that he can't just do what needs to be done, which is to make clear what the problems are and in them. >> i had a question that was very much related to the last comment. it has to do with both osama bin laden and these -- the use of the secret war. david ignatius wrote about how he is one of the presidents who has taken most quickly into understanding our intelligence system and all the secret stuff that is out there. we have all these secret...
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but i think boehner is the one who's got the weight of the world on the shoulders right now in terms of trying to navigate a deal that is at the end of the day, even the president admitted this. he won't cut it back deal, but not everybody will be happy with the deal. not everybody on the left and not everybody on the right is probably going to be happy with the final outcome. that is what dealmaking is about. we've got to hope that it's really the best deal possible for us. >> i would just add in terms of republicans again, first of all exact funding for education is caught up again in this bigger issue of the nondefense discretionary come as any negotiations on the fiscal cliff. unfortunately they don't talk about how much money should title one day, pokhran skit because it's part of this bigger pot of money. our goal is to get rid of the sequestering protect nondefense discretionary. i will say there have been republicans or are republicans who are big fans in particular funding for special education for children to disabilities. it's one of the more bipartisan programs. there's a
but i think boehner is the one who's got the weight of the world on the shoulders right now in terms of trying to navigate a deal that is at the end of the day, even the president admitted this. he won't cut it back deal, but not everybody will be happy with the deal. not everybody on the left and not everybody on the right is probably going to be happy with the final outcome. that is what dealmaking is about. we've got to hope that it's really the best deal possible for us. >> i would...
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i remember calling up a guy before i worked for romney i worked for boehner in the majority leader officer, i called up the digital guy tell me about twitter. how it's going work. he said you don't need to know it. it's not a big thing. here we're now, i notice during the campaign so much of what we did was driven from the bottom up through twitter. and -- even when i was on the plane. we would do the different gaggle. she would do it on a bigger plane. air force one. we call pear force one. i would got back of the plane and gaggle for fifteen or twint minutes. by the time i would come back i would come back on twitter and say it made news. >> people responded and taked you on twitter. >> when you say people you don't mean people you mean reporters. >> or people. [laughter] reporters are not people. >> that was on the free to be you and me. the reporters are people. but you mean this was the kind of back stage conversation you were watching playout on twitter? sometimes real people. it was more important how the journalist were using twitter. >> yeah. it became a incredible news. you could
i remember calling up a guy before i worked for romney i worked for boehner in the majority leader officer, i called up the digital guy tell me about twitter. how it's going work. he said you don't need to know it. it's not a big thing. here we're now, i notice during the campaign so much of what we did was driven from the bottom up through twitter. and -- even when i was on the plane. we would do the different gaggle. she would do it on a bigger plane. air force one. we call pear force one. i...
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something tells me i don't think speaker boehner is not upset. he understands his power, and we do too. when you see the key moments in the house, day-to-day, there's a lot of eric cantor, and at the key moments, boehner comes out of the white house or oval office, and he's very powerful. i think we, what we try to do is certainly with the top 10, provide a representative list of not just house and senate leaders, but white house, military, ect.. >> host: number two on the list, ?afort mitch mcconnell, why? >> guest: same reason that eric cantor is number one, overthrowing president obama's agenda. depending on who you talk to, they are doing a good job of it. mcconnell is a smart guy, people like him, but they know he is extremely tough, and he's not shy of saying no when he wants to, and particularly, when you're in the minority, in the legislature, your ability to say no and stand up in front of the cameras and basically be announce your intransigence is a powerful trait, and not everyonements to do that. >> host: top two slots for republicans
something tells me i don't think speaker boehner is not upset. he understands his power, and we do too. when you see the key moments in the house, day-to-day, there's a lot of eric cantor, and at the key moments, boehner comes out of the white house or oval office, and he's very powerful. i think we, what we try to do is certainly with the top 10, provide a representative list of not just house and senate leaders, but white house, military, ect.. >> host: number two on the list, ?afort...
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speaker boehner said when he became speaker, he said we are going to have to behave like adults. that includes the debt limit. it says to me we are operating on dangerous ground. we can get away with it as long as there is no other reserve currency and other countries are doing worse than we are. but it is not a game i believe we should be playing. >> this reminds me, i was interviewing a candidate earlier this cycle. i won't say what office he was running for. but we were discussing his position on the debt ceiling. and i said, would you really -- would you really push hard enough so that we would actually go in default? and the candidate -- he was reasonably bright and articulate, knew something about this -- he looked at me and said, well, you know, yes, because everyone would know it was just a technical default. the u.s. government isn't really going into default. it was a technical default. i thought to myself, well, the european markets would've been very contentious if they wouldn't have fell. that is a radical debate, but now we are going to go to closing statements. the
speaker boehner said when he became speaker, he said we are going to have to behave like adults. that includes the debt limit. it says to me we are operating on dangerous ground. we can get away with it as long as there is no other reserve currency and other countries are doing worse than we are. but it is not a game i believe we should be playing. >> this reminds me, i was interviewing a candidate earlier this cycle. i won't say what office he was running for. but we were discussing his...
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john boehner. mr. speaker, thank you for coming again. [applause] >> also joining us is the state president of the north dakota eternal order of police. grant benjamin, he is here today representing the national border directors and owner of the lost board of directors member from the fraternal order of police steve kenner who passed away in the line of duty in 2011. steve was the fourth national board member of the f.o.p. to die in the line of duty and grant is here today representing those four, but more especially his friend, steve kenner. thank you, grant. [applause] >> next i welcome linda henning, national president of fraternal order of police auxiliary, our partners in this memorial service. shall be welcoming you all in a few minutes. turning now to my left, please welcome paul irving, the sergeant at arms of the house of representatives. this is his first service as the house sergeant at arms, and we are very grateful for his presence. [applause] >> next is the acting chief of our host agency denied state capitol police. tom rey
john boehner. mr. speaker, thank you for coming again. [applause] >> also joining us is the state president of the north dakota eternal order of police. grant benjamin, he is here today representing the national border directors and owner of the lost board of directors member from the fraternal order of police steve kenner who passed away in the line of duty in 2011. steve was the fourth national board member of the f.o.p. to die in the line of duty and grant is here today representing...
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then we went through the months and months of talks between the president and boehner. both times, boehner could not deliver because they refused because of grover norquist to allow any tax revenues whatsoever. we had meetings with the vice president, biden and cantor. cantor walked out of those meetings. he is the majority leader in the house. we had the gang of six, the gang of eight. we had this super committee, and they were doing good things, good things, dealing with entitlements and revenues. and a week before they were to report, buy virtue of statute, i get a letter signed by virtually every republican, too bad about the super committee, we're not going to do anything with revenues. so this is not a capsule of a couple of days. this has been going on for years. they cannot cross over the threshold that has been built by grover norquist. people who are rich, who make a lot of money, they are not opposing raising the taxes on them. the only people in america who don't think taxes should be raised on the rich are the republicans who work in this building. so any t
then we went through the months and months of talks between the president and boehner. both times, boehner could not deliver because they refused because of grover norquist to allow any tax revenues whatsoever. we had meetings with the vice president, biden and cantor. cantor walked out of those meetings. he is the majority leader in the house. we had the gang of six, the gang of eight. we had this super committee, and they were doing good things, good things, dealing with entitlements and...
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john boehner is the speaker of the house. john boehner realizes that he has to confront his own people if he is going to save the credit rating them back on moody's and save it from downgrade. this is going to be a political disaster. john boehner can fill in the back of his scalp that this is going to be burning on the republicans. he feels political blame but it's also worried about the country. two hearts -- two heartbeats away from the downgrade. and so, he does something extraordinary. he acts like a leader. he comes up with a compromise. that is a political possibility from where he sits and he finds out a way to close loopholes and raise some $800 billion in new revenue. that should be enough to make a deal with the president of the united states. and he manages to come to a deal. even shake hands. and they can feel history, the wind of history at their back. and then we will reform entitlement. the vice president is deeply involved. at the very moment that they are making this deal and they shake hands, obama suddenly
john boehner is the speaker of the house. john boehner realizes that he has to confront his own people if he is going to save the credit rating them back on moody's and save it from downgrade. this is going to be a political disaster. john boehner can fill in the back of his scalp that this is going to be burning on the republicans. he feels political blame but it's also worried about the country. two hearts -- two heartbeats away from the downgrade. and so, he does something extraordinary. he...
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john boehner. mr. speaker, thank you for coming again. [applause] also joining us is the state president of the north dakota fraternal order of police, grant benjamin. he is here today representing the national board of directors in honor of a lost board of director member from the fraternal order of police, steve cantor, who passed away in the line of duty in 2011. steve was the fourth national board member of the fop to die in the line of duty, and grant is here to represent especially his friend, steve cantor. thank you, grant. [applause] next, i welcome lynn hinny, she'll be welcoming you all in a few minutes. [applause] turning now to my left, please welcome paul irving, the sergeant at arms in the house of of the representatives. this is his first service as the house sergeant at arms, and we're grateful for his presence. [applause] next is the acting chief of the united states capitol police. tom reynolds is joining us for the first year as the acting chief. thank you, chief. [applause] next to chief reynolds is the acting director
john boehner. mr. speaker, thank you for coming again. [applause] also joining us is the state president of the north dakota fraternal order of police, grant benjamin. he is here today representing the national board of directors in honor of a lost board of director member from the fraternal order of police, steve cantor, who passed away in the line of duty in 2011. steve was the fourth national board member of the fop to die in the line of duty, and grant is here to represent especially his...
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succumb speaker boehner, called the house back to work, do it now. you don't have to wait until sunday night because the danger is that you actually run up the clock and then it goes over the fiscal cliff and the ball drops on the middle class so bring the house back right now so that we can do the people's work and allow democracy to work as well, allow us to have an up or down vote on the senate bill. it passed the senate with a majority vote. it can pass the house with a majority vote and the only thing this eager boehner needs to be afraid of is that that bill will actually pass and then we will avoid going over the fiscal cliff. right? so a simple message. come back and let a majority in the house, republicans and democrats work their will and let the democracy works of that we can protect the middle class. it's also essentials but we passed the expansion of unemployment insurance. and that is why the president has been very clear on that since day one that should be part of any plan. these are people that are out of work through no fault of the
succumb speaker boehner, called the house back to work, do it now. you don't have to wait until sunday night because the danger is that you actually run up the clock and then it goes over the fiscal cliff and the ball drops on the middle class so bring the house back right now so that we can do the people's work and allow democracy to work as well, allow us to have an up or down vote on the senate bill. it passed the senate with a majority vote. it can pass the house with a majority vote and...
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president, i come to the floor of the senate this afternoon to urge speaker boehner and the house of representatives to pass the bipartisan senate highway jobs bill now. this is an important bill that would save or create nearly 3 million jobs with really a stroke of the president's pen. from washington in the northwest, 33,700 jobs. rhode island in the northeast, 9,000 jobs in our small state, to florida in the south, 81,700 jobs. this is the jobs bill that we need to act on. rhode island would receive $227 million a year for highways, roads and bridges from this bill and that would hold us steady at funding -- this year's funding levels. rhode island would also receive an additional $30.5 million each year for transit projects, which would be a 10% increase over this year's federal aid. importantly, this bipartisan senate bill that will be so good for jobs across this country includes language authorizing a program for projects of regional and national significance. that will help fund critical infrastructure projects like the providence viaduct, where i-95, the main northeast high
president, i come to the floor of the senate this afternoon to urge speaker boehner and the house of representatives to pass the bipartisan senate highway jobs bill now. this is an important bill that would save or create nearly 3 million jobs with really a stroke of the president's pen. from washington in the northwest, 33,700 jobs. rhode island in the northeast, 9,000 jobs in our small state, to florida in the south, 81,700 jobs. this is the jobs bill that we need to act on. rhode island...
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[applause] >> i would now like to introduce our next speaker, speaker of the house john boehner. congressman john boehner serves as the 61st speaker of the united states house of representatives where he represents the eighth district in ohio. the son of a tavern owner, speaker boehner worked his way through college before embarking on a successful career as a small businessman. as a member of the gang of seven that presaged the republican revolution, the key author of the original contract with america, chairman of the committee on education and work force and, ultimately, as a member of the house leadership he has long fought to reform washington d.c. today he is focused on removing government barriers to private sector job creation and economic growth, cutting government spending, reforming congress and rebuilding the bonds of trust between the american people and their representatives in washington. please help me in welcoming congressman john boehner. [applause] >> thank you. morning, everybody! [applause] thank you! let me begin by thanking all of you for what you do in the
[applause] >> i would now like to introduce our next speaker, speaker of the house john boehner. congressman john boehner serves as the 61st speaker of the united states house of representatives where he represents the eighth district in ohio. the son of a tavern owner, speaker boehner worked his way through college before embarking on a successful career as a small businessman. as a member of the gang of seven that presaged the republican revolution, the key author of the original...
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have you heard a speaker john boehner? hears us that the democrats are. they have made sure that in southwest ohio, john boehner does not have a democratic opponent. so it's pretty easy for most of these people to get reelected. a lot of them have no opponents. more of them have nominal opponents of the major party. nevermind the green party or the libertarian party, constitution party. they know how to marginalize small parties, keep them out of debates, wear them down with ballot access obstacles. so what are we doing about our member economies? the guy to ask ourselves work questions. answer this one for me. please be candid. someone who is your neighbor, let say, knocks on your door, says hi, i am your new neighbor. i want to tell you a little bit about myself. he put down your little iphone, turn off the tv. i spent 23% of your income. i can let all kinds of companies rip you off, and employ you, i made sure you come disrespect to come to invade your privacy and expose you to toxic chemicals. i can raise your taxes or lower your taxes. i can sing you
have you heard a speaker john boehner? hears us that the democrats are. they have made sure that in southwest ohio, john boehner does not have a democratic opponent. so it's pretty easy for most of these people to get reelected. a lot of them have no opponents. more of them have nominal opponents of the major party. nevermind the green party or the libertarian party, constitution party. they know how to marginalize small parties, keep them out of debates, wear them down with ballot access...
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been very cold-blooded in the his strategy in a way that boehner hasn't, but it was in the house far more than the freshmen tea party members, the members of the republican study committee including long-time veterans like jim jordan of ohio and mike pence and a thurm of others -- a number of others who posed a much deeper challenge. but with all of that a part of the problem was there's a natural tendency when you have this movement emerging and people who are energized to ride that tiger and to exploit it as much as you can and believe that once you have taken them past the finish line, you can co-opt them. and i'll change the animal metaphor. if you cultivate a hungry and rabid rot wilier and it scares everybody in the neighborhood, that can be fabulous for you until you have to go outside. and then it may not recognize who the master really is. and i think it's been frustrating for a john boehner who at root is a legislator and a problem solver that he can't control his troops. and that's a part of what's going on here. what's also true and, stu, you know this as well as anybody
been very cold-blooded in the his strategy in a way that boehner hasn't, but it was in the house far more than the freshmen tea party members, the members of the republican study committee including long-time veterans like jim jordan of ohio and mike pence and a thurm of others -- a number of others who posed a much deeper challenge. but with all of that a part of the problem was there's a natural tendency when you have this movement emerging and people who are energized to ride that tiger and...
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republicans passed a bill weeks ago that would have preserved current rates, and late last week, speaker boehner, liter cantor, senator kyl and i sent a -- leader cantor, senator kyl and i sent a joint leader to the president proposing multiple solutions to the problem that was thoughtfully and carefully designed to gain the president's support. in fact, the solutions were based on the president's own proposals. let me say that again. we sent a letter to the president advocating continuing the current rate for another year and proposed pay-fors that he himself has endorsed. so you can imagine how surprised we were to see one of the president's political advisors say on one of the sunday shows yesterday that republicans in congress are sitting on our hands and an op-ed this morning by education secretary saying that congress isn't lifting a finger to resolve the problem. so let's be very clear about all this. republicans in congress are the only ones actual working to solve the student loan issue and unless the president isn't having his male forwarded to him on -- his mail forwarded to him on th
republicans passed a bill weeks ago that would have preserved current rates, and late last week, speaker boehner, liter cantor, senator kyl and i sent a -- leader cantor, senator kyl and i sent a joint leader to the president proposing multiple solutions to the problem that was thoughtfully and carefully designed to gain the president's support. in fact, the solutions were based on the president's own proposals. let me say that again. we sent a letter to the president advocating continuing the...
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john boehner will be, you know, the next speaker, eric cantor will be the majority leader, and kevin mccarthy will be the majority whip. where it starts to get interesting is for the conference chairman position. this is currently held by jeb hensarling who is making a bid to be the financial services chairman. hensarling has been a sort of rising star for a while within republican ranks. he was a republican study committee chairman which is sort of the top conservative position in republican circles in the house. there are two people who are making a run for conference chairman. tom price, who's also a committee chairman of the past, he's currently the republican policy committee chairman, he's making a bid for conference chairman, and kathy mcmorris rogers who's vice chairman of the republican congress right now. and they really do represent two different modes. mcmorris rogers is a very effective surrogate for romney. she is from washington, she's from tom foley's old district in the, in central/south washington. it's an agricultural area. spokane is sort of the population center,
john boehner will be, you know, the next speaker, eric cantor will be the majority leader, and kevin mccarthy will be the majority whip. where it starts to get interesting is for the conference chairman position. this is currently held by jeb hensarling who is making a bid to be the financial services chairman. hensarling has been a sort of rising star for a while within republican ranks. he was a republican study committee chairman which is sort of the top conservative position in republican...
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no, i think boehner has been very clear. i think rev news are -- revenues are on the table. life's filled with compromises, we'll see where that goes. so, no, last time, you're right, it didn't work. we weren't facing quite the same set of circumstances we're facing today, and so i'm cautiously optimistic, although i will also just say lastly that people sometimes say, okay, there's either a deal that looks like simpson-bowles or we go off the cliff. we could end up with all kinds of outcomes that may be less than i would like, maybe less that all of you would like or at least something. i'm hoping it's more over here. but i don't know. >> and, steve, so we are gathered here to talk about u.s. global competitiveness. how important is resolving these issues to the american position in the global economy? >> well, first of all, i think it's important not just to our position in the global economy, but our position in the world. admiral mullen who is the previous chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said our greatest national security threat was our lack of fiscal resources an
no, i think boehner has been very clear. i think rev news are -- revenues are on the table. life's filled with compromises, we'll see where that goes. so, no, last time, you're right, it didn't work. we weren't facing quite the same set of circumstances we're facing today, and so i'm cautiously optimistic, although i will also just say lastly that people sometimes say, okay, there's either a deal that looks like simpson-bowles or we go off the cliff. we could end up with all kinds of outcomes...
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one person has the power to do it -- speaker john boehner. if he calls the bill that passed the senate as he is being urged to by his own members of his own party, we can give a good holiday gift. if not a gift, at least a holiday reference to families all across america who are looking for some help, not only in this holiday season but beyond. madam president, i ask that my next statement be placed in a separate part in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: after a long debate, a lot of television commercials, robocalls and tons of political literature, the 2012 campaign is finally over. america breathes a sigh of political relief. but it was all said and done, more than 120 million americans participated. as we know, the american people have returned divided government to washington. we have a democratic senate with an increased majority, a democratic president, and a republican house of representatives. yet, by a margin of 3.4 million popular votes and 126 electoral votes, president obama was re-elected. now tha
one person has the power to do it -- speaker john boehner. if he calls the bill that passed the senate as he is being urged to by his own members of his own party, we can give a good holiday gift. if not a gift, at least a holiday reference to families all across america who are looking for some help, not only in this holiday season but beyond. madam president, i ask that my next statement be placed in a separate part in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: after a...
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senator boehner -- speaker boehner shook on it. minority leader mcconnell shook on it. majority leader reid signed it. and joined many of my colleagues in voting for it. and then president obama signed it into law. it became the law of the land. a law that i would add is binding, that replaces and carries more weight than a budget resolution and that makes the budget resolutions we are debating today nothing more than political theater. senate democrats fully intend to honor our word and stick to the bipartisan budget levels for next year. and senate republicans in our appropriations committee, including the minority leader, recently voted to stick to those levels as well. but i was really disappointed that less than nine months after we shook hands on that deal, house republicans turned right around and broke it. they put appeasing their extreme base ahead of the word they gave to us and the american people and they demonstrated clearly that a deal with them isn't worth the paper it's printed on. but despite house republicans' reneging on the deal, the budget control a
senator boehner -- speaker boehner shook on it. minority leader mcconnell shook on it. majority leader reid signed it. and joined many of my colleagues in voting for it. and then president obama signed it into law. it became the law of the land. a law that i would add is binding, that replaces and carries more weight than a budget resolution and that makes the budget resolutions we are debating today nothing more than political theater. senate democrats fully intend to honor our word and stick...
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at the end of the day was boehner who walked away is my understanding. i should be careful because i don't cover the legislative side things very often but that is my read. i'm not sure about the cbo health care. >> host: this is a tweet from the viewer. both europe cannot have peaked in the free market they created. tariff? >> guest: i think that overstates it. the truth is we are still -- the united states is still the world's biggest economy and europe collectively as the second biggest and that may change eventually. china may eventually surpass us because they have a much bigger population. on a per capita basis it is not foreseeable that china surpasses the united states or europe in terms of economic output. for high-grade services, for high-grade manufactured airplanes, the stuff that is really hard to make it so the case that the u.s. and europe are more efficient on it and most developing nations and you see that in our overall lead structure. now, whether tariffs are a good idea or not is disconnected to how we are competing and i think most e
at the end of the day was boehner who walked away is my understanding. i should be careful because i don't cover the legislative side things very often but that is my read. i'm not sure about the cbo health care. >> host: this is a tweet from the viewer. both europe cannot have peaked in the free market they created. tariff? >> guest: i think that overstates it. the truth is we are still -- the united states is still the world's biggest economy and europe collectively as the second...
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so i have written letters to congressman boehner, speaker boehner, and leader cantor, and i have begged them to please work with us on this bill, and all we get back are statements from their staff, well, we're going to do it our way. and as congresswoman pelosi, the democratic leader, said today, when you say my way or the highway about a highway bill, you really don't get much done. i also wanted to thank senator klobuchar. we also held office at the state level. she was a district attorney, and she understands what happens when we work together, federal government, state government, local government, all of us working together for jobs, and that's what this bill is about. so i'm going to call today on the house to immediately take up and pass the bipartisan boxer-inhofe bill. i'm going to ask them to abandon their goal of a series of extensions. you know, madam president, when you go to buy a house, your constituents and mine, they need a mortgage. maybe it will be a ten-year mortgage, 15, maybe 20 or 30-year mortgage. if the banker looked at them and said we can only give you a mort
so i have written letters to congressman boehner, speaker boehner, and leader cantor, and i have begged them to please work with us on this bill, and all we get back are statements from their staff, well, we're going to do it our way. and as congresswoman pelosi, the democratic leader, said today, when you say my way or the highway about a highway bill, you really don't get much done. i also wanted to thank senator klobuchar. we also held office at the state level. she was a district attorney,...
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the essence of it that secretary geithner, the secretary of the treasury, met with i guess speaker boehner and this is an outline of the president's deficit reduction plan. this is what they are proposing to do. it started off a few weeks ago at $1.6 trillion in new taxes, now we're talking about $1.4 trillion, i understand. that's the latest iteration of the tax increases. 1,400 billion dollars in tax increases. well, where will that money go? and will it change the debt course of america? will it put us on a sound path? can we go home at night and say wow, i'm glad they finally got their act together and put this business on the road? well, let's examine what they're proposing. they're proposing to spend above the b.c.a., the budget control act limits that i just talked about. they have certain limits, includes the sequester. those limits are in law. the law will have to be changed and if a president propose to change the law, and to eliminate 12 hundreds billion cuts. that's 60% of the cuts that were agreed to when we raised the debt ceiling $2.1 trillion. wipe out 60% of them, just lik
the essence of it that secretary geithner, the secretary of the treasury, met with i guess speaker boehner and this is an outline of the president's deficit reduction plan. this is what they are proposing to do. it started off a few weeks ago at $1.6 trillion in new taxes, now we're talking about $1.4 trillion, i understand. that's the latest iteration of the tax increases. 1,400 billion dollars in tax increases. well, where will that money go? and will it change the debt course of america?...
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that's the challenge i gave to the speaker today, speaker boehner. let the house vote. if they voted overwhelmingly, mr. president, one republican suggested, one republican house member that more than half of the republicans in the house would vote for giving the tax security to people who make less than $250,000 a year. so i say let's have speaker boehner call upon the republicans in the house to add 25 or so votes to what the democrats would do, and you'd have 218 votes and we could go on to taking care of the fiscal cliff. mr. president, my friend protests too much. the senate is broken and needs to be fixed and we need to change the rules. we change them all the time. last year we changed the rules. why? because, mr. president, what they were doing -- republicans -- just to stop and slow down everything, after two cloture votes -- remember that takes a long time to file two cloture petitions, a couple of days and then 30 hours. two cloture votes, 60 hours. you would think the debate was all over. oh, no, what they decided they were going to do is suspend the rules a
that's the challenge i gave to the speaker today, speaker boehner. let the house vote. if they voted overwhelmingly, mr. president, one republican suggested, one republican house member that more than half of the republicans in the house would vote for giving the tax security to people who make less than $250,000 a year. so i say let's have speaker boehner call upon the republicans in the house to add 25 or so votes to what the democrats would do, and you'd have 218 votes and we could go on to...
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the farmer has to say call john boehner because we don't know. the house failed to pass the major legislation. as harry reid said, same was true in postal reform. i called issa in december when we got an agreement from the postmaster general to put off the awesome changes that have to take place in the postal service until we had a chance to do our job, and issa had no interest in it at all. here we are. postal reform, bipartisan, passes the senate, fails in the house of representatives. to date, 30 # senate republicans said let us run the place, show you what happens. well, we've seen what happened under their effort. they've been unable even with the republican controlled house to pass the most basic legislation, postal reform, transportation, farm bill, and even when we gave them a bipartisan bill, it's an indication as majority leader said that if you're only goal is to embarrass and defeat the president, then you are going to ignore the speedometer in congress. that's what's happened time and again through republican leadership in the senate
the farmer has to say call john boehner because we don't know. the house failed to pass the major legislation. as harry reid said, same was true in postal reform. i called issa in december when we got an agreement from the postmaster general to put off the awesome changes that have to take place in the postal service until we had a chance to do our job, and issa had no interest in it at all. here we are. postal reform, bipartisan, passes the senate, fails in the house of representatives. to...
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president obama and speaker boehner cut this deal. did you ever buy a car, sit down with the salesman, decide on a price, shake hands? you have been through that, right? he says, i have to go check with the manager. [laughter] obama shook hands with boehner last july. the deal fell apart. i am not trying to say why. they had a deal. revenues $800 billion. entitlements, health, $400 billion. remember my charts. that is where the major problem is. a good start. chained cpi, the way we index federal programs. $800 billion in entitlements. these are very approximate numbers. these are the deals they settled on. this sequester accomplishes that. the other stuff fell apart. why do i point this out? they had a deal. they shook hands. it is not impossible for us to get a deal. at least to put the process down for a deal. let's not give up hope. so what would a deal look like. kick the can down the road another year. they could use the budget resolution and reconciliation rules to put a restraint on a future congress of about a $3 trillion alo
president obama and speaker boehner cut this deal. did you ever buy a car, sit down with the salesman, decide on a price, shake hands? you have been through that, right? he says, i have to go check with the manager. [laughter] obama shook hands with boehner last july. the deal fell apart. i am not trying to say why. they had a deal. revenues $800 billion. entitlements, health, $400 billion. remember my charts. that is where the major problem is. a good start. chained cpi, the way we index...
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, a letter from the national women's law center to speaker boehner, a letter from the national women's law center to chairman issa, a tri-caucus letter from representative gonzales, representative cleaver and representative -- >> without objection, all those -- >> and last but not least, a letter from the national organization of black -- >> did you get these letters from the attorney general himself? no, i'm teasing. [laughter] without objection, all those letters will be made a part of of the record. >> thank you, and i yield back. >> the gentleman from texas is recognized for questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for being here, attorney general. i want to thank your office for the cooperation we've had on this specific issue of human trafficking, the new scourge that's happening in the united states. a recent pew study has come out and said that there are approximately two million ineligible voters in the united states. of that two million, 1.8 million are dead people. i would assume you would agree that voter rolls when verified that a the folks on the rolls are dead, t
, a letter from the national women's law center to speaker boehner, a letter from the national women's law center to chairman issa, a tri-caucus letter from representative gonzales, representative cleaver and representative -- >> without objection, all those -- >> and last but not least, a letter from the national organization of black -- >> did you get these letters from the attorney general himself? no, i'm teasing. [laughter] without objection, all those letters will be...
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john boehner once and jim clyburn twice. that's it. and i think there were 40 basketball games that are known and he played, there were 10 members in one game. and that's it. and go around community, go around to members -- to our democratic house offices of not freshmen or sophomores that it never had a single white house official walk across the threshold. now, let's say the president is 100% committed to getting a budget deal through, a grand bargain. what you have to ask yourself, even if his intentions are absolutely the best, and even if he's absolutely committed to it, he is going to have to change the whole way he operates 100%. a democratic lobbyist friend of mine says a model of the white house seems to be no new friends. [laughter] so, i mean, i'm a long-term optimist and a short-term pessimist, but we will see. >> and the difference between bill clinton and barack obama is bill clinton wants any new friend you could find, and that was part of what he was so successful politically, and this president has a different way of o
john boehner once and jim clyburn twice. that's it. and i think there were 40 basketball games that are known and he played, there were 10 members in one game. and that's it. and go around community, go around to members -- to our democratic house offices of not freshmen or sophomores that it never had a single white house official walk across the threshold. now, let's say the president is 100% committed to getting a budget deal through, a grand bargain. what you have to ask yourself, even if...
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once he plays golf with john boehner he can't kill him. [laughter] that's too bad. not that want to kill john boehner but it is too bad he can't just do what needs to be done which is make clear what the problems are and name them. >> i had a question that was very much related to the last comment and, has to do with osama bin laden and these drone killings, use of secret war. david ignatius wrote how he is one of the presidents who has taken most quickly into understanding our intelligence system and all this secret stuff that is out there and we have all the secret armies. and he is also what is interesting been one of the presidents who has been most vociferious about shutting down and badly treating whistle-blowers and not tolerating any kind, wikileaks, any kind of attacks of someone coming at him. so i'm, wondering if he put all this together of someone who can't brook criticism? who can't brook having an alternative view of out there and, and on top of this being willing to take, to be a law unto himself regardless of of what the law is? >> this is always whe
once he plays golf with john boehner he can't kill him. [laughter] that's too bad. not that want to kill john boehner but it is too bad he can't just do what needs to be done which is make clear what the problems are and name them. >> i had a question that was very much related to the last comment and, has to do with osama bin laden and these drone killings, use of secret war. david ignatius wrote how he is one of the presidents who has taken most quickly into understanding our...
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john boehner could not even pass a tax proposal that he suggesting that would keep the taxes the same for everybody except people making over a million dollars.llio nope, grover and the boys said s no. can't do that. so he voted -- didn't p even bring it up for a vote. so i am here, i'm happy to listen to anything the speaker and the republican leader have. they have the way of getting to the president. they don't need my help. but i'm happy to work with them any way that i can. but the way things have been but going, it's not a really goods cape hatch that we have --ve. escape hatch that we have.they they're out of town, they won't be back for two days, 48 hours. so that's where we are.
john boehner could not even pass a tax proposal that he suggesting that would keep the taxes the same for everybody except people making over a million dollars.llio nope, grover and the boys said s no. can't do that. so he voted -- didn't p even bring it up for a vote. so i am here, i'm happy to listen to anything the speaker and the republican leader have. they have the way of getting to the president. they don't need my help. but i'm happy to work with them any way that i can. but the way...
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. >> you talked about speaker boehner. who us else was at the meeting? >> was house minority leader nancy pelosi,, senate majority leader harry reed, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. >> are these meetings largely just for show or to try to really get something done? is there any sense that something can get done on these issues before the end of the year were before the election? >> caller: there is very little hope that these things can get done before the election, at least the ones that are, the ones they just talk about with the tax cuts and the spending cuts in the debt ceiling. some of those other issues that the president want to talk about like the student loan bill and some of those others are ones that might be dealt with in the next few weeks and months. but when you asked if they are for show or not, i think to some extent they are. the president wants us to know that he is still meeting with congress and they are still engaged in the legislative process. but obviously a lot of these negotiations are going to go on behind the scenes be
. >> you talked about speaker boehner. who us else was at the meeting? >> was house minority leader nancy pelosi,, senate majority leader harry reed, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. >> are these meetings largely just for show or to try to really get something done? is there any sense that something can get done on these issues before the end of the year were before the election? >> caller: there is very little hope that these things can get done before the...
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let's remember that it was the president and john boehner who came pretty close to a deal, probably a deal that i wouldn't have liked, but a deal that they were about to have, and it was boehner who couldn't deliver. >> that's not true. >> that is true. >> no. >> that is very true. [inaudible conversations] >> both sides backed away from that, and we don't know who could deliver. >> that was boehner that backed away from the -- from it. >> that's not true. >> you can't rewrite history, ben. >> simon? >> well, i think some of the things ben is saying are quite encouraging. but i want to press on, first, grover norquist. many norquist so opposed to anything that would involve any kind of tax increase. this that context, which tax expenditures would you regard as being on the table? which ones are you going to eliminate in order to boost revenue if you're also pushing for a lower tax rate? that's a hard combination, by the way, but tell us. >> it is a hard combination. i think that ryan, who's speaking for the committee -- not for the committee but for himself -- is starting all the indi
let's remember that it was the president and john boehner who came pretty close to a deal, probably a deal that i wouldn't have liked, but a deal that they were about to have, and it was boehner who couldn't deliver. >> that's not true. >> that is true. >> no. >> that is very true. [inaudible conversations] >> both sides backed away from that, and we don't know who could deliver. >> that was boehner that backed away from the -- from it. >> that's not...
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obama himself weighs in and negotiate to john boehner. it is obvious that republicans are just not going to do a deal. what is really interesting, though, i think, and this underscores two things in relation to the point. they did not intend this as a way to make republicans look bad. they intended it as a way to get a deal done. there are a series of moments along the way -- for the republicans strongly intimated they cannot raise taxes and they will not go along with tax increases. every moment, either obama himself for were some of the top aides are always trying to rush out and put these negotiations back together. long after the point where they have established, they are reasonable people, negotiating in good faith and it is the republicans who absolutely refuse to go along. so that is one thing that is highly indicative of what is going on here. the second thing that is really interesting is when this finally collapses in late july of 2011, and it becomes obvious that they are not going to get this big deficit grand bargain that th
obama himself weighs in and negotiate to john boehner. it is obvious that republicans are just not going to do a deal. what is really interesting, though, i think, and this underscores two things in relation to the point. they did not intend this as a way to make republicans look bad. they intended it as a way to get a deal done. there are a series of moments along the way -- for the republicans strongly intimated they cannot raise taxes and they will not go along with tax increases. every...
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the two bases, the democratic base, from nancy pelosi's democrats in the house, and then from john boehner's republicans in the house. >> and us. >> the media. >> it's the story we go after. >> can i get some kind of friction going? >> i'm going to make a threat this is going to make sense i promise. you said they are running against the 60. when you said that and we got diverted, sorry -- i'm thinking of them bringing up contraception. >> rick santorum talking about woodstock. >> what was that all about? >> they lost and think the country went to hell. a lot of the issues, there should be a column called sex in the 60's rather than in the city because that's what they talk about. i don't mean all people talk about it but politicians particularly in states that the believe half a loaf catholics, a catholic voting is in that different, but they think they can find some -- >> is that you? [laughter] >> they still talk about those. >> but can it work and gain traction? >> i think they are committing suicide. spinet maureen dowd said people understand like sex. [laughter] >> you'll get mitt romn
the two bases, the democratic base, from nancy pelosi's democrats in the house, and then from john boehner's republicans in the house. >> and us. >> the media. >> it's the story we go after. >> can i get some kind of friction going? >> i'm going to make a threat this is going to make sense i promise. you said they are running against the 60. when you said that and we got diverted, sorry -- i'm thinking of them bringing up contraception. >> rick santorum...
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speakers include house speaker john boehner, governor rick perry and herman cain as well as kentucky senator rand paul. >> fewer than 60 days effective april 1, 2012, japan will lower its combined corporate rate to 38%. that will leave the united states with the highest corporate tax rate in the entire industrialized world. this dubious distinction will make it that much more challenging to attract businesses to hire and invest here at home where we need jobs. >> someone said the seeing tax law made is like seeing sausage made. you just don't want to see it. >> it's time for american businesses to put aside our industry-specific wish lists and to work collectively to support a more coherent and equitable tax policy and corporate taxation structure. >> this week house ways and means took up the future of corporate tax policy for publicly-traded companies and how to encourage investment and job growth by lowering tax crates and e limb -- tax rates and eliminating special tax rates. follow the discussion online at c-span.org/videolibrary. >> now, the former middle east adviser to presid
speakers include house speaker john boehner, governor rick perry and herman cain as well as kentucky senator rand paul. >> fewer than 60 days effective april 1, 2012, japan will lower its combined corporate rate to 38%. that will leave the united states with the highest corporate tax rate in the entire industrialized world. this dubious distinction will make it that much more challenging to attract businesses to hire and invest here at home where we need jobs. >> someone said the...
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boehner was just on tv. he's in favor of the pipeline, but he don't tell you how safe the pipeline is. if the american people would watch chris matthews' show, ed schultz's show and get some information, listening to specialists in those areas where it's going to go through, it's going to harm waterways, farm land. it also was noted on tv that the pipeline is unsafe. the crude oil that's coming down from canada is thick as peanut butter. it's noted that it needs heated up to make it flow through the pipes and also they said the pipes are unsafe. >> host: raymond thanks for your call. one more call from david, in shepherd, texas, who's a supporter of the pipeline. how >> caller: how are you doing? >> host:. caller: i have a son that works in a refinery as well. i used to work in a refinery. i was a electrician for 30 years. we had refineries down around these parts for years. and there's been no, you know, severe damage living around them and everything else, occasional smells, that's about it. but no environ
boehner was just on tv. he's in favor of the pipeline, but he don't tell you how safe the pipeline is. if the american people would watch chris matthews' show, ed schultz's show and get some information, listening to specialists in those areas where it's going to go through, it's going to harm waterways, farm land. it also was noted on tv that the pipeline is unsafe. the crude oil that's coming down from canada is thick as peanut butter. it's noted that it needs heated up to make it flow...
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or two questions that john boehner. number one, ac temperamentally willing to go and legislate, especially if he is major concessions president. i think you might get the answer is yes. at least the second second question. can he bring his caucus along? a couple of the leading tea party members of the house republican maturity would see this, but the caucus is still as conservative as it was before last night. so i don't know the answer, but we have issues that could really divide us. immigration for the president is going to move ahead very quick we. i see the tender when deal that every republican presidential candidate said they would not accept. it may not be tender one. 41 or 51, the republicans get at least 80% of what they want. the question is can they say yes to 80% of what they want? the final one is the supreme court. especially what happens if antonin scalia or anthony kennedy retire? forget ruth bader ginsburg. lusciously what happened even if there's a mainstream nominee what if president obama names the f
or two questions that john boehner. number one, ac temperamentally willing to go and legislate, especially if he is major concessions president. i think you might get the answer is yes. at least the second second question. can he bring his caucus along? a couple of the leading tea party members of the house republican maturity would see this, but the caucus is still as conservative as it was before last night. so i don't know the answer, but we have issues that could really divide us....
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soy hope that -- so hoeup -- so i hope speaker boehner will reconsider. i believe it is much too early to give up. i urge my republican colleagues not to give up on themselves because i'm not going to give up on them. it's time for them to stopl rooting for the -- stop rooting for the economy to fail, start rooting for congress to succeed in reaching common ground. the markets are watching our every move with moody's saying yesterday that they were thinking of down grading our debt standing, credit rating. there's no hope -- it's not the right time to say there is no hope in getting anything done. i disagree. i say the glass is half full. the speaker came after that reminder for moody's came forward. we're willing to work, i say that to my friend john boehner and to everyone else. we're willing to negotiate, cooperate, willing to make difficult cuts to programs we hold dear, and i think republicans should do the same. so far they refused. they refused to raise even a penny of new revenue. they refused to ask millionaires to contribute their fair share to
soy hope that -- so hoeup -- so i hope speaker boehner will reconsider. i believe it is much too early to give up. i urge my republican colleagues not to give up on themselves because i'm not going to give up on them. it's time for them to stopl rooting for the -- stop rooting for the economy to fail, start rooting for congress to succeed in reaching common ground. the markets are watching our every move with moody's saying yesterday that they were thinking of down grading our debt standing,...
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and, you know, what i would like to tell john boehner is don't give in to this craziness. this is nothing but craziness. and i watched harry reid yesterday. you know, he talked and he talked and he really said nothing. then he went on about dance, dance, dance and i thought to myself all you do is dance around with these bills that they send. the house will have a bill, they send it to the senate and what does he do? dances around it and never addresses it. >> host: know by partisanship than for you? >> caller: no, absolutely none. then when he left the stage and was walking off, the man -- i feel bad for him that he just can't get it together -- he grabbed ahold of the flag. he was falling. then he grabbed ahold of low wall and at that point i said uh oh that man needs to go home. he's too old to be there. he doesn't do his job and is collecting a big paycheck. >> host: we covered that news conference. you probably watched it on c-span, go over to the site, c-span.org if you want to watch the entire press conference with senate majority leader harry reid. on facebook here
and, you know, what i would like to tell john boehner is don't give in to this craziness. this is nothing but craziness. and i watched harry reid yesterday. you know, he talked and he talked and he really said nothing. then he went on about dance, dance, dance and i thought to myself all you do is dance around with these bills that they send. the house will have a bill, they send it to the senate and what does he do? dances around it and never addresses it. >> host: know by partisanship...
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i didn't hear you say anything about john boehner. since when does business every guarantee? business is always a risk. so if you're not willing to take the risk, let someone else do it who's willing to take the chance. >> guest: yes, i think there is a lot to go around in terms of congress. you know, john boehner, the speaker of the house also should be providing later shipped to ensure the deal gets done. any mention of bob woodward wrote. i believe rob woodward has interviews with john boehner and the president on how last summer we were all complaining about the debt ceiling debate and it just fell flat. once again is that americans pay in the balance while these guys fight about the amount of taxes were going to pay any amount of spending were going to see. again, here we are one year later waiting for this fiscal class. now in terms of apple, apple has been a very successful company and it makes products people want. but let's not forget something. apple is sitting on some $40 billion of cash on the balance sheet. much of that money is overseas. that money is not coming
i didn't hear you say anything about john boehner. since when does business every guarantee? business is always a risk. so if you're not willing to take the risk, let someone else do it who's willing to take the chance. >> guest: yes, i think there is a lot to go around in terms of congress. you know, john boehner, the speaker of the house also should be providing later shipped to ensure the deal gets done. any mention of bob woodward wrote. i believe rob woodward has interviews with john...
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he insists it was an offer speaker boehner is equally insistent that it was a demand. i talked to him, talked to all the people. now, no one else was in the room, there's no secret tape recording of that phone conversation i know about. if anyone does, please, give me a call. [laughter] but why do that on the phone? you shouldn't do that on the phone. you should other people there so it's carefully, you know, i mean, it was changing or making a proposal at the end that set this off on a track. it is a very dramatic story, and it brings to the fore the issues that we're going to be dealing with in three or four months. yes. >> you may have already allude today this somewhat in answering a previous question, but, you know, congressional approval is at record lows, and people left, right, center, everywhere talk about how broken government is. and what are those things there your perspective that have broken it, and what are those things that if they were removed either individual or structural, um, that would help fix it? what's the path forward? >> you know, that's abov
he insists it was an offer speaker boehner is equally insistent that it was a demand. i talked to him, talked to all the people. now, no one else was in the room, there's no secret tape recording of that phone conversation i know about. if anyone does, please, give me a call. [laughter] but why do that on the phone? you shouldn't do that on the phone. you should other people there so it's carefully, you know, i mean, it was changing or making a proposal at the end that set this off on a track....
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it's time for speaker boehner to look beyond ideology and partisan politics. it's time for him to look at the history of a bill that again and again and again has been supported and expanded by republicans and democrats. it's time for him to do the right thing and pass our inclusive bipartisan violence against women act. because women across the country's lives literally depend on it. madam president, i'm delighted that my colleague from california is here with me. she's been with us every step of the way in this bipartisan bill that we've moved forward, and as women and men who support us, we are going to continue being loud and strong. we need to pass the senate bill, speaker baron -- speaker boehner needs to take it up. the women in this country are watching and waiting. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objec
it's time for speaker boehner to look beyond ideology and partisan politics. it's time for him to look at the history of a bill that again and again and again has been supported and expanded by republicans and democrats. it's time for him to do the right thing and pass our inclusive bipartisan violence against women act. because women across the country's lives literally depend on it. madam president, i'm delighted that my colleague from california is here with me. she's been with us every step...
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once he plays golf with john boehner he can't kill him. [laughter] that's too bad. not that want to kill john boehner but it is too bad he can't just do what needs to be done which is make clear what the problems are and name them. >> i had a question that was very much related to the last comment and, has to do with osama bin laden and these drone killings, use of secret war. david ignatius wrote how he is one of the presidents who has taken most quickly into understanding our intelligence system and all this secret stuff that is out there and we have all the secret armies. and he is also what is interesting been one of the presidents who has been most vociferious about shutting down and badly treating whistle-blowers and not tolerating any kind, wikileaks, any kind of attacks of someone coming at him. so i'm, wondering if he put all this together of someone who can't brook criticism? who can't brook having an alternative view of out there and, and on top of this being willing to take, to be a law unto himself regardless of of what the law is? >> this is always whe
once he plays golf with john boehner he can't kill him. [laughter] that's too bad. not that want to kill john boehner but it is too bad he can't just do what needs to be done which is make clear what the problems are and name them. >> i had a question that was very much related to the last comment and, has to do with osama bin laden and these drone killings, use of secret war. david ignatius wrote how he is one of the presidents who has taken most quickly into understanding our...
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if you listen closely to what speaker boehner said, he also left the door open a little bit. can they get this all done in the lame-duck session? no, they cannot. can they get a little bit done what they can get the broader tax reform and spending controls done in a way that gives confidence to the ceos in this room? yes, they can do that. but the question is will they do it. >> so if you could give him one -- he did the president on the phone for two minutes and give them one piece of advice on what he has to do to get this deal done -- what would be? >> boy, i don't know. that's a tough question. i think i would tell him that he needs to spend more time with the leadership on both sides of the congress. and each open up the white house and invite more of the members of both houses and. a little bit more getting to know each other. that is not his nature. he is really introverted, to be quite frank. but he needs to reach out and
if you listen closely to what speaker boehner said, he also left the door open a little bit. can they get this all done in the lame-duck session? no, they cannot. can they get a little bit done what they can get the broader tax reform and spending controls done in a way that gives confidence to the ceos in this room? yes, they can do that. but the question is will they do it. >> so if you could give him one -- he did the president on the phone for two minutes and give them one piece of...
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he insists it was an offer speaker boehner is equally insistent that it was a demand. i talked to him, talked to all the people. now, no one else was in the room, there's no secret tape recording of that phone conversation i know about. if anyone does, please, give me a call. [laughter] but why do that on the phone? you shouldn't do that on the phone. you should other people there so it's carefully, you know, i mean, it was changing or making a proposal at the end that set this off on a track. it is a very dramatic story, and it brings to the fore the issues that we're going to be dealing with in three or four months. yes. >> you may have already allude today this somewhat in answering a previous question, but, you know, congressional approval is at record lows, and people left, right, center, everywhere talk about how broken government is. and what are those things there your perspective that have broken it, and what are those things that if they were removed either individual or structural, um, that would help fix it? what's the path forward? >> you know, that's abov
he insists it was an offer speaker boehner is equally insistent that it was a demand. i talked to him, talked to all the people. now, no one else was in the room, there's no secret tape recording of that phone conversation i know about. if anyone does, please, give me a call. [laughter] but why do that on the phone? you shouldn't do that on the phone. you should other people there so it's carefully, you know, i mean, it was changing or making a proposal at the end that set this off on a track....
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the day after both john boehner and barack obama both said it was about the public's desire to rein in government. and to reduce deficits and spending and the debt. one month later both parties overwhelmingly passed an enormous tax cut which added $900 billion to the national debt. in just two years. to put that in perspective, the debt ceiling prom poise from last -- compromise from last summer if it's actually followed through on which will eventually have reduced the debt over 2 billion. again, there's no incentive right now for politicians to do more than claim to be against debt. but at the end of the day, you know, this is the important issue, i think, from an economic perspective. this is the major issue that america will face over the next decade. so i agree with many democratic economists right now, jobs are a very serious issue. but this is -- it's not the number one issue now, it's the issue for the next decade, and it's an issue that will shape the kind of society we live in, and that's ultimately why we wrote the book. we wanted to lay out the issues and, again, you don't
the day after both john boehner and barack obama both said it was about the public's desire to rein in government. and to reduce deficits and spending and the debt. one month later both parties overwhelmingly passed an enormous tax cut which added $900 billion to the national debt. in just two years. to put that in perspective, the debt ceiling prom poise from last -- compromise from last summer if it's actually followed through on which will eventually have reduced the debt over 2 billion....
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the senate democrats have said give us a vote on the democratic bill, give us a vote, and john boehner has said, well, sure, we'll give you a vote, and we're going to beat it. the truth is they have 242 republicans, very few republicans are expected to support the democratic plan. they're happily -- they haven't officially determined it, but they expect to among the series of options that they'll vote on probably thursday will be the democratic bill. and you'll see a very what the caller, christina, does not like, you'll see a very polarized vote, you'll see almost all the democrats voting for it, almost all the republicans voting against it. so they'll knock that down before they move on to passing the republican bill. >> host: paul kane, congressional reporter with "the washington post," is our guest. michael's in tucson, arizona, republican caller. good morning. >> caller: good morning, he low. >> host: hi. >> caller: hello. >> host: what do you have to say? >> caller: my question is, what do the obama administration or romney administration plan to do with the gas prices that are s
the senate democrats have said give us a vote on the democratic bill, give us a vote, and john boehner has said, well, sure, we'll give you a vote, and we're going to beat it. the truth is they have 242 republicans, very few republicans are expected to support the democratic plan. they're happily -- they haven't officially determined it, but they expect to among the series of options that they'll vote on probably thursday will be the democratic bill. and you'll see a very what the caller,...